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Our Cultural Heritage
Chapter-7
WHAT IS IMPORTANT ?
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After having attained to this most valuable human life, one should do and gain something, which is invaluable and unprecedented, so that the feeling of eternity and delight is experienced.
When we live with this kind of thoughts, then only we can become a real human being. If all the time of our life is used in sheer selfishness, only to earn, eat and protect our family as animals do, then no fragrance can come from such a life to and no one gets a ray of joy through us.
Both, the Eastern and Western thinkers have considered the human life as best, because the human being can live not only by the whims of his mind, but he can independently think and O differentiate between good and bad, and by doing good things can avoid harmful things. Only this thoughtfulness-discretion-knowledge differentiates the human being from all other animals and establishes him as the supreme. Human being is the most highly evolved among
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